Imperial Eminence Cyberguard Corporation · The Ivory Index

Commercial Licence Agreement

Commercial · Ref: IECC-C-002 · Version 1.0 · Effective 14 June 2026

Article I — Grant of Commercial Licence

Subject to the terms of this Agreement and the applicable Order Form, IECC grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable commercial licence to use The Ivory Index Software for the purposes, User counts, and term specified in the Order Form.

Article II — Licence Tiers

Article III — Restrictions

• No redistribution or sublicensing beyond authorised User count
• No white-labelling or rebranding without separate written agreement
• No use to train competing AI models or develop competing products
• No removal of IECC copyright notices or attribution

Article IV — Intellectual Property — Explicit Allocation

Customer owns:

• All data, content, and materials uploaded or provided by Customer ("Customer Inputs")
• Personal statements and original works authored by Customer's end users
• Customer's own prompts submitted to the AI system

IECC owns:

• The Software, source code, and all updates and derivative works thereof
• All AI models, model weights, and underlying machine learning architecture
• All scoring frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and proprietary algorithms
• All brand assets, documentation, and user interface design

Generated Outputs (AI-generated text, rankings, scores, evaluations, recommendations):

• Licensed to Customer under a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for internal business use
• IECC does not assign ownership; Customer receives a use licence only
• No warranty of originality, uniqueness, or copyright protectability is given for Generated Outputs

Article V — Fees

Commercial licence fees are specified in the Order Form. All fees are non-refundable except as specified in the Refund Policy or where required by mandatory law. Fees may be adjusted at renewal with 60 days' advance written notice.

Article VI — Support & Updates

Commercial licensees receive the support tier specified in the Order Form. Software updates are provided as released during the licence term. Major version upgrades may require a new order or additional fees.

Article VII — Audit Rights

IECC may audit Customer's use of the Software to verify compliance with licence terms, subject to the following conditions:

• Frequency: No more than once per calendar year, unless IECC has reasonable grounds to suspect material breach
• Notice: Minimum 15 business days' prior written notice
• Auditor: Conducted by an independent third-party auditor mutually agreed upon (or, absent agreement within 10 days, appointed by IECC from a Big 4 accounting firm)
• Confidentiality: The auditor shall execute a non-disclosure agreement with Customer prior to commencing the audit; audit findings shall be shared only in aggregate and shall not disclose Customer's competitively sensitive information
• Scope: Limited to licence compliance verification; the auditor shall have no access to Customer's proprietary product or business information beyond what is strictly necessary
• Cost: IECC bears audit costs unless material underpayment (>5%) is discovered, in which case Customer bears reasonable audit costs
• Conduct: Audits shall be conducted during normal business hours and shall not unreasonably disrupt Customer's operations

Article VIII — Termination

IECC may terminate this licence upon 14 days' written notice if Customer materially breaches this Agreement (including exceeding authorised User count) and fails to cure such breach within the notice period. Upon termination, Customer must immediately cease all use and destroy all copies. IECC shall provide Customer with a 30-day export window for Customer Inputs and Generated Outputs stored in any IECC-hosted environment.

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